Any Doom-related dreams?

[Scypek2]

Tonight I've dreamed about the sound sequence thing, specifically. I was making some kind of subway map (possibly inspired by March of the Speeddemons, which was one of the few times I mapped for ZDoom?), and reading up about the sound sequence thing on the wiki. It specifically said that it can change the sound of doors and lifts, but it can't change the sound of pistons (the ones from Minecraft).

 

That's gotta be the second most interesting dream after the one about a fictional SpawnDietItem function.

[Deleted Account]

I dream I was in a dark area with wood textures and stairs on the ceiling, and I had godmode and infinite ammo.

[Dreemurr Deceevurr]

Not too long ago I dreamt about a survival horror-esque mod where you're some succubus-like creature escaping some household. You started out in a bathroom and sliced up some zombies with a straight razor, most of the house was very dark with the main source of illumination being the bathroom light. I never got to "play" the level after that, but it culminated in a giant cog structure.

 

I also remember dreaming of another dark Doom map, this time it looked kinda like the otherworld from Silent Hill and there were faceless Zombiemen. Another I can very barely remember was some fortress of green marble.

[Scypek2]

I had yet another extremely interesting dream, this one was about the yellow arachnotron plasma dealing less damage than the blue marine plasma. Maybe I got it conflated with the shotgun guy / player shotgun difference.

[Scypek2]

Oh hey, that's gonna be another Doom/Minecraft crossover this year! Cause today I had a dream about playing on 2B2T, which was an anarchy server in Doom. It took place in a big sprawling map, but it wasn't randomly generated so I already remembered most of the progression and where the monster closets were. The Ender Dragon was glitched, stuck in the overworld (whatever overworld meant in this case...) above the end portal, and I started shooting her with the super shotgun. I guess I must have been using hacks, cause I could shoot the SSG without reloading, and it proved very efficient. But when her health went below 50%, some anti-cheat plugin must have kicked in, and she started regnerating health super quickly, soon getting back to 100%. I concluded that this was why, even after all those years, no one ever made it to MAP02 of 2B2T.

[Sena]

Never had a dream specifically about doom, but I'm largely convinced that these days I straferun in my dreams more often than I walk normally

[Scypek2]

Now that's interesting! I don't think I've ever straferun in a doom map in my dream, there's always too many monsters and cramped passages around.

[ChopBlock223]

I've had bad dreams where my nodes/BSP tree gets irrecoverably fucked up.

[StrangerRanger]

I've had a dream of an open-world survival Doom mod with Blood weaponry and a brick I could use as a weapon.

[Scypek2]

There was a door that seemed like it could be opened normally but it couldn't, and a lift that seemed like it'd lower upon pressing it, but instead pressing the lift opened the door. But instead of monsters, behind the door were people I had to argue with.

[ChopBlock223]

Seems like it would be easy enough to recreate as a level.

[Scypek2]

I just had a dream that Supplice has been released, and everyone who played the demo was invited to a big co-op game to celebrate.

[bobstremglav]

One was about me playing alpha version which had actual enemies and allies. Then I came to corridor with texture of PS1 Hagrid from Harry Potter. In source files of this alpha then I found "screamer" version of this texture, lol.
 

And another one was about strange doom 2 map where I met baron which was throwing revenant rockets and had legs of arachnotron.

[Maribo]

Had a fever dream a couple nights ago where I was making UV-Max TASes for a bunch of old Tango maps (t-stone, t-cove, t-gyro, t-vegas). I don't think I finished any of them, lol.

[Hawk of The Crystals]

So, around four hours ago, I had a strange dream in which I was playing several strange, and almost surreal maps on nightmare. It wasn't a pleasant experience.

[Scypek2]

My dream today was mostly unrelated to Doom, but then I dreamed about some person shutting himself in that one Entryway monster closet to sleep. It's not often that I dream about actual existing maps...

 

Recently I've also had a dream about 3IAC, so that was also unique. I was in MAP21, in the flickering tekwall room leading to the red key, and I fought the mancubus, but then I ended up in my kitchen, the mancubus turned into a chaingunner, and I had no weapons and had to beat him up instead.

[Hellbent]

Every once in awhile a cyberdemon will stomp into my dreams. I don't know that I've ever dreamt about an actual doom map or wad. A few months ago I had a dream where a giant bull turned out to be a cyberdemon and I was having a helluva time figuring out how to kill it without being splattered all over the walls. 

[robocaco]

I once had a dream where I was in a very narrow corridor with a baron at the end of it and I had to work out how to defeat it with my shotgun. 

[Scypek2]

I had a dream about making a collaborative megawad. Someone outside our group playtested one of the levels and hated everything about it, summarizing it as "horribleness in a beige jar". We then decided to name the map "horribleness" and went on to create a similarly themed map called "beige jar" to precede it. The map mostly used those four textures/flats (in fact, I know it was specifically this grey wall with the horizontal stripe):

 

 

And there was a corridor that looked something like this, but with more detail and contrasting light.

 

Later on I was designing an area in what seemed like Doombuilder co-op mode, with me and at least one other person editing the same map simultaneously. I went through the texture selection and there were multiple fireblu variants, only they were smoothly animated and in truecolor with every color ever (though still mostly blue).

[DoomPlayer00]

I've seen a lot of dreams about playing through non-existing Doom levels over the past year.

For instance, I once dreamed of a very linear egypt themed level that opens up at the end and turns into an arena against 3 Cyberdemons.

 

Oddly enough these dreams are just about the only ones I can precisely remember, down to what textures each sector used or what enemies the player fought.

 

I plan to turn my dream levels into a map pack someday.

 

[resle]

Starting in 1995, I had been having multiple dreams about doom 3 being released. There's one I still remember so clearly, like I had it yesterday:

 

a pinky standing between two of those golden candelabras (which were one of the things that creeped me out the most about doom to begin with). A typical "tech door" behind it. A doom 3 logo, and a church hymn with organ and a choir as background music. 

 

The whole thing had a solemn, sacred atmosphere and sprites were still just sprites but looking subtly more photorealistic. Shadows were being cast.. jesus, just like the recently released prboom-rtx now that I think about it, and there were coloured lights.

 

And that was it. A single frame dream, with me shortcircuiting on whether I should have just started playing, or waiting for the night to come to enjoy it properly, or call friends to tell them about it.. and then I woke up.

Edited April 20, 2022 by resle

[gwain]

I designed apart of a level in a lucid dream when I drew on a wall 

Edited April 19, 2022 by gwain

[Ghostly_Pops]

Once dreamed of an Arch-vile chasing me down a hallway 

[Kinetic]

I have some doom dreams every once in a while, every time my perspective is doomguy's but I still have the status bar and everything so basically what I see is how the game looks normally. It's also always me playing a level completely conjured from my mind that I haven't seen actually made by anyone in real life. I remember one time I had a dream where I was playing a slaughterish map with a large red room with a spidermastermind, but there was also Borderlands mechanics? I used to play Borderlands more at the time I think.

[thiccyosh]

I once dreamed that Revenants were chasing me down an endless GRAY1 hallway.

 

I once dreamed the Doom title screen with E3M7 in the background but all of the blood was just nukage

 

I once dreamed that I was fighting the Icon of Sin but everytime something spawned it was just 20 Arch-Viles on one spot.

 

And finally...

 

I once dreamed me going through Knee Deep in the Dead, but it was like two maps and E1M8 was all fireblu.

[Senor Cacodemon]

I once had a very depressing dream with Sign Of Evil (One my favorite doom midis) playing

[aika]

A while ago I had a dream where Doom somehow blended with reality. In the dream I was in this town I used to live in when I was studying, and I was taking a photo of a bunch of high rise buildings that looked cool to me, when I suddenly noticed a bunch of dead imps lying on the street. What's funny is that the imps looked pixelated as in Doom even though everything else looked crisp and normal :)

[SplinkWizard]

I had a dream where I was running through a bunch of offices that were all interconnected. I remember having to flip switches or something while a giant pinky demon chased me. When it got close, it played the trumpet like music from half life op4. I was only armed with a super shotgun and it didn't kill the pinky. I flipped a switch and then the dream abruptly ended as Thomas the tank engine rammed into the pinky.

[Merry Widow]

Not really too weird, but dreamed that I somehow got Alien Vendetta, and  Alien Vanguard blended together using something like deusf. All the maps weren't separate, it just made 32 huge maps into a homongus megawad. Whatever it was, it was a lot of fun to play until someone woke me up...again.

[Snarboo]

I often dream about Doom when I play it regularly! A good chunk of them are about being chased by Arch-Viles in mazes (gee, I wonder why :p), but many are also about custom maps that don't exist. While I've tried recreating dream maps over the years, I usually hit mapper's block once the dreamed up portion is finished. That, or I realize they don't play well despite how cool they look.